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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Conpeeve

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve

Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.

Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)

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Vexitating

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting

Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.

Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating

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COMMENTS:

artr Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00

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Quirkedout

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: qwerked-out

Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.

Etymology: quirk + past tense + out

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Teeheedious

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: tee/hee/dee/us

Sentence: At first it was charming when the new intern tee heed after every remark the Director said - now it is just teeheedious.

Etymology: Tee Hee + tedious

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COMMENTS:

hee-larious - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:56:00

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Irritrait

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ear-ee-trayt

Sentence: his babytalk was the irritrait that drove a wedge between them

Etymology: irritate, trait

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COMMENTS:

This perfectly describes the actions of the guy who sits in front of me who argues to an unseen somethingorother all day; a very annoying irritrait. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 18:56:00

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Ewsik

Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: EEeeeeeeewwwwww SICK!

Sentence: Julie's ewsik has gotten to the point that every time she clears her throat I wanna grab her by the hair and smash her face in. "I think it's cute." You would. She's all yours.

Etymology: My xgf used to say eww sick all the time.

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COMMENTS:

ew rock! - Nosila, 2009-09-10: 01:50:00

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Agitrait

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: aj/i/treyt

Sentence: His nose-picking became a major agitrait for his girlfriend.

Etymology: agitate + trait

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Endearaffront

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: en-DEER-a-front

Sentence: Connie's neighing laugh had at first seemed endearing, but Jerry was so endearaffronted by it that he was planning to desert her.

Etymology: endear (attract) + affront (offense) + Ends here (it's all over as of now)

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COMMENTS:

petaj Better late than never - petaj, 2007-02-16: 02:12:00

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Thornication

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: θôrnikāshən

Sentence: Charlie is very good at getting under the skin of his co-workers. He doesn’t mean to be annoying but his habitual activities amount to thornication.

Etymology: thorn (a thorn in someone’s side - a source of continual annoyance or trouble) + fornication (two people not married to each other having sex)

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COMMENTS:

love it...so prickly! - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:55:00

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Relationbug

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug

Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!

Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.